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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity awareness and incident response Train employees to recognize phishing attempts and social engineering. Report ransomware incidents to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , CISA, or MS-ISAC. Deploy endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 The channel has more than 180,000 subscribers, while the view count on the video with the malicious link exceeds 64,000.

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FBI and DHS CISA issue alerts on e-skimming attacks

Security Affairs

Another attack scenario sees hackers targeting the administrators of the platform with social engineering attacks in an attempt to obtain his credentials and use them to plant the malicious code in the e-store. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. .

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks – Part 1

Security Boulevard

The system developers weren’t overly preoccupied with security because they had no conception of something called the Internet. With no Internet in existence at the time, the systems were “air gapped” – meaning not connected to other systems or the outside world, for years. The Dangers of ICS Memory-Based Attacks.